One by one the flowers, presents and messages were left in front of the royal palaces of London, until the parks were covered in this dense and soft layer of pure sentiment.

We witnessed a surprising and special moment in which something deeply touched the collective unconscious, opening a channel that mobilised the individual psyche of numerous individuals. In general, only someone very special is capable of opening up archetypal processes like this. Perhaps the princess loved by the people, managed to become a myth as a result of being so touchingly human. If this is the case, perhaps we are faced with the last heroine of the century.

Heroine?!

Hero, in Greek, means basically "one who was born to serve". And the hero as archetype, potential structure of the collective unconscious, emerges when a man or woman manages to overcome his/her personal, local or historical limits and reach a dimension where paradigms are broken and only original answers are possible. These people speak with eloquence of elements in society that are disintegrating, but also of forces (perhaps mainly) that come into being enabling the society to be reborn. Thus, the hero is a representative of psychic forces that challenge stagnation and access the vital centres of the individuation process in our unconscious. For good or worse, heroes are the messengers of what is new. Let us see what Diana, the non- warrior, who could quite easily have remained a fabricated Cinderella myth, did to enable this archetype to emerge.